Poroshenko gave the command to file a lawsuit to Russia from-for the law of the sea

Poroshenko gave the command to file a lawsuit to Russia from-for the law of the sea

14.09.2016

The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has instructed the Ministry of foreign Affairs to initiate arbitration proceedings against Russia. Kiev accuses Moscow of violating the UN Convention on the law of the sea.

photo: Natalia Gubernatorova

The corresponding statement in his Twitter did the press Secretary Poroshenko Svyatoslav Tsigalko.

The Minister stressed that Kiev will get financial compensation, but did not specify the amount. But, according to him, it would be “very ambitious” claim under the UN Convention on the law of the sea.

Note that in August, the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Moscow and Kiev could not agree on the UN Convention on the law of the sea.

According to her, representatives of Ukraine were in negotiations formally, in order to subsequently declare the end of the preliminary consultation on sovereign rights in the waters around the Crimea.

Read the respondents “MK” experts on the prospects of a claim of Ukraine against Russia